Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130723:01:13:00
Minority. we've done through a number of cycles like this in our history. we fought a civil war. we had reconstruction. african-americans got equal rights in the south. there were prominent african-american elected officials. then we had the reaction. the southerners who threw out the reconstruction government, called themselves redeemers. i'm sure the confederate avenger identifies with those redeemers. then we went through a long period of real regression, you know, until the time that w.e.b. deboy started writing. it took him a long time. we went backwards on race and went forward again in ...